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Shakespeare in Sable : A History of Black title: Shakespearean Actors author: Hill, Errol. publisher: University of Massachusetts Press isbn10 | asin: 0870235257 print isbn13: 9780870235252 ebook isbn13: 9780585083605 language: English Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--United States, African American subject actors--Biography, Theater--United States-- History. publication date: 1984 lcc: PR3105.H54 1984eb ddc: 792.9/5 Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--United States, African American subject: actors--Biography, Theater--United States-- History. Page i Shakespeare in Sable Page ii Page iii Shakespeare in Sable A History of Black Shakespearean Actors Errol Hill Foreword by John Houseman The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst Page iv Copyright © 1984 by Errol Hill All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First paperback printing 1986 LC 83-18106 ISBN 0-87023-525-7 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last page of this book. The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities toward the publication of this book. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared in Women in American Theatre, ed. Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins (New York: Crown Publishers, 1981), © 1981 by Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins. An earlier version of portions of chapter 2 appeared as "S. Morgan Smith: Successor to Ira Aldridge," Black American Literature Forum 16, no. 4 (1982), © 1983 by Errol Hill and Indiana State University. Frontispiece, Ira Aldridge as Othello, Frankfurt, 1852. From a lithograph by S. Buhler, Mannheim. The following note is appended to the picture: "Represented by him at the Royal Opera House, Berlin, before their Majesties the King and Queen and Court of Prussia; at the Court Theatre, Dresden, before the King, Queen and Court of Saxony, and the imperial Court of Austria." Page v For Lah and Grace who made it all possible Page vii Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Foreword by John Houseman xiii Introduction: A Personal Memoir xvii 1 1 Shakespeare and the Black Actor 2 17 Involuntary Exiles 3 43 No Place Like Home 4 64 From Artist to Activist 5 79 Challenge of a New Century 6 101 Novelty Shakespeare 7 120 Broadway and Beyond 8 143 How Relevant Is Race? 9 177 Toward the Future Notes 194 Bibliography 203 Index 207 Page ix Illustrations Ira Aldridge as Othello, Frankfurt, 1852 frontispiece ii James Hewlett as Richard III 13 Ira Aldridge as King Lear 18 Ira Aldridge as Othello, England 21 Ira Aldridge in Titus Andronicus 22 Ira Aldridge as Othello, Moscow 26 Morgan Smith 28 Playbill for Morgan Smith as Othello, London 32 J. A. Arneaux 46 Hurle Bavardo as Othello 56 Charles Winter Wood 60 Henrietta Vinton Davis 66 Henrietta Vinton Davis in Christophe 74 C. Henry Tinsley 83 Atlanta University students in The Merchant of Venice 84 Adrienne McNeil Herndon 85 Bert Williams as the Jonah Man 87 Richard B. Harrison receiving the Spingarn Medal 90 Richard B. Harrison in The Green Pastures 91
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